Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
In a recent article in Christianity Today, Chuck Colson details a correspondence he recently had with a young theologian who was enamored with a new movement within the evangelical church. The theologian defended a popular notion that the highest truth is relational and not something that can simply be known.
Colson does a good job of exposing that idea as one that sounds good on the surface but is hollow once one goes a bit deeper. If the deepest truth about Christ is relational, is it true that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life if we never experience him? Of course it is-Jesus is the Truth whether we relate to him or not. Anything we experience in our relationship with Christ is a result of the basic fact that he is Lord.
This kind of half-truth is the most dangerous kind. It can lead us down some unorthodox paths if we believe that truth is based on relationships.
This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger pastor of Quail Lake Community Truth and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.
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